2018 Conference Program

Our Presenters
James Robert Bitter, Ed.D., is Professor of Counseling and Human Services
at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. He is a Diplomate in
Adlerian Psychology (NASAP, 2002), and the former Editor of the Journal of
Individual Psychology. He is the current President of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP), a position
he will hold through 2018. Jim is the author or co-author of 4 books, including Adlerian Group Counseling and
Therapy: Step-by-Step (2004); Contributions to Adlerian Psychology (2011); and The Theory and Practice of Family
Therapy and Counseling (2nd ed., 2014) – as well as more than 60 journal articles, chapters, and videos.
He is the featured master therapist on the video for Adlerian family therapy on the Psychotherapy.net series Family
Therapy with the Experts. Jim was privileged to study, write, and work with Virginia Satir for more than ten years, and he has
also studied with the master Gestalt therapists, Erv and Miriam Polster, and the founder of Narrative Therapy, Michael White.
Starting with his early work at Idaho State University with Dr. Tom Edgar and later
with his mentor, Dr. Manford Sontegard, Jim has participated in establishing
and supporting five family education centers in the United States, and
contributing to the development of another five throughout the world.
“Anyone trained in Adlerian
Psychology knows what to do the
first time they sit down with a client
and through the process.”
Wes Wingett & Steven Maybell
Jennifer Obenshain, MSW, LCSW received her Master’s Degree in
Social Work from Boise State University and has been a clinical social worker in the
community since 2000. Between 2000 and 2015 she worked in the medical setting as a social worker, a clinical educator
and as a bioethics consultant. As a medical social worker Jennifer worked in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
and then as a Clinical Educator for St. Luke’s Health System, overseeing education and clinical competency development
for all social workers within the system. Jennifer completed advanced training in bioethics and has served
as a bioethics consultant for the health system, specializing in pediatric ethics, for the past 7 years. She presents
extensively on both Bioethics and Social Work ethics locally and nationally and is currently the chair for the Idaho
Chapter of NASW ethics committee.
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